Yuki and I were cruisin’ around this weekend and ended up passing through the Puerto Rican strip of Division Street. Right about that time both of our stomach’s started to growl. Her’s may have been the baby kicking, but mine was definitely something else. While neither of us were all too impressed with the food [...]
Archive for the ‘Restaurant’ Category
Gyu-Kaku
Posted in Restaurant, tagged basil, beer, char dog, cherry blossoms, chicago, chicken, chinese steam buns, chitown, doriyaki, five star, groupon, gyu-kaku, harami, ice cream, kalbi, korean bbq, miso, mochi, pancakes, playboy, portillo's, ramen, red bean paste, red leaf lettuce, sake, sakura, sakura festival, sesame seeds, steak, white rice, yakiniku on April 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
So, yesterday one of Yuki’s supervisors decided to take her crew out to dinner at Gyu-Kaku, a yakiniku joint downtown. That left me by myself to eat, drink, whatever. My plan was to meet up with a buddy of mine from the Playboy Pilot at Five Star for a couple of drinks, then pick Yuki [...]
Jury’s
Posted in Restaurant, tagged amber ale, bells, bread, broccoli, burger, butter, carrot, cheddar, chicago, fries, green bean, grilled onion, ground beef, groupon, italian, jury's, lettuce, multi-grain, olive oil, onion, paramount room, parmesan, pasta, pickle, rye, sausage, tomato, vegetables, zucchini on April 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you go back to December 24, 2010, you’ll see that I posted about the burgers at the Paramount Room. After we ate those burgers Yuki was talking about them with some of her co-workers the next day. One of them was raving to her about the burgers at Jury’s. Jury’s burgers this…Jury’s burgers that…etc. [...]
Al Primo Canto
Posted in Restaurant, tagged al primo canto, baba ghanoush, beef, blackberry, blue cheese, brazillian steakhouse, brazzaz, cachaca, caparinha, cheese pop-over, chicken, edgebrook, eggplant caponatto, fetucini, flan, flat bread, fogo de chao, garlic, green beans, groupon, herb, lamb, mixed greens, mushroom, parmesan, pasta, pearl onion, polenta, potatoes, powdered sugar, raspberry, sage, salad, tomato sauce on March 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The other night Yuki and I used up another Groupon that was about to expire. We were intrigued by the $30 savings from an all-you-can-eat Brazillian steakhouse, yet one that’s different from the Brazzaz’s and Fogo’s of the world. This Groupon was for Al Primo Canto. At the time they had two locations, one at [...]
BOKA
Posted in Restaurant, tagged angus, asian, banana republic, bean puree, beef, beet salad, blood orange, bok choy, boka, brisket, candied walnuts, cauliflower, cheese, chef tentori, chicago, chocoate, croquette, dave brubeck, edamame, espresso, fava, forbidden black rice, french, frisee, fudge, ginger, ginger kulfi, green tea, kulfi, lincoln park, maine diver scallop, marshmallow, naha, oysters, parsnip, pork belly, red cabbage, restaurant week, scallop, soba, tangerine, tenderloin, wild mushroom on February 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Restaurant Week started here in Chicago this past Friday. Unlike last year where Yuki and I ended up going to 6 or 7 different places we’ve decided to only do 2 this year. We started off Saturday night at a place that’s been high on our list of places to try for a while but never got [...]
Demera
Posted in Restaurant, tagged abyssinia, american, beef, berbere, chicago, chicken, chickpeas, chili, cottage cheese, demera, doro wat, ethiopian food, groupon, hard boiled egg, hibist, honey, honey wine, hops, ice cream, indian, injera, jalapeno, lamb, lega tibs, lemon sauce, lentils, messob, michetabish, quosta, ras dashen, rosemary, salmon, sambussa, spinach, sweet roll, tuna, volcano, ye-salmon dulet, ye-shimbra assa on December 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Friday night Yuki and I took advantage of another Groupon we had purchased a while back. Gotta love Groupon, great opportunities to try new places at a discount. This one was for an Ethiopian restaurant we haven’t tried yet, Demera. We love Ethiopian food and had read good things about Demera, so it was one [...]
Honey 1 BBQ
Posted in Restaurant, swine, tagged baby back ribs, baked beans, bbq sauce, cole slaw, french fries, honey 1 bbq, pork rib chili, pork ribs, smoke, smoked pork, smoque, spare ribs, white bread on December 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
My buddy Nick has been harping on me for a while to check out this rib place next to his apartment. With no real dinner plan last night, combined with my ride home from a haircut, I took advantage of having Honey 1 BBQ in my crosshairs. On a cold night made even colder from [...]
